Regional Linkage and the Spatial Spillover Effects on Regional Economic Growth in China
Based on the ESDA method,this paper explores the feature of regional linkage and the spatial correlation among China's regional per-capita GDP from 1998 to 2009.We find that there exists global spatial autocorrelation all over the country,and this kind of autocorrelation has been increasing since 1998.Meanwhile,the local spatial correlation is gradually being shown.During the last 10 years.With the help of the new-economy-geographical model,we try to explore the effect of the potential market on the regional economic growth in China.The empirical analysis shows that spatial spillover effect is important to the regional economic growth rate.1% increase of market potential raises GDP per capita growth by 0.47%.In terms of elasticity,the effect of market potential outperforms that of capital.However,the spatial spillover effect among regions will gradually vanish as the distance between regions increase.